Thank you for all your donations to our Giving Tree campaign. We gave you the option of adding a book to your purchase to be donated to the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital – and here we are dropping off your donation.

As our student bookfluffies retreat to the comfort of their family Christmas trees and/or sprout-stenching bedsits and/or subterranean moon bases, we roll back our opening times. Make a note so you’re not disappointed – and don’t forget, you can always order online.

Opening times during Christmas week:

Sun closed

Mon 9am-5pm

Tue (Christmas Eve) 9am-4pm

Wed (Christmas Day) closed

Thu (Boxing Day) closed

Fri 9am-5pm

Sat closed

Opening times during New Year week:

Sun closed

Mon 9am-5pm

Tue 9am-4pm

Wed (New Year’s Day) closed

Thu 9am-5pm

Fri 9am-5pm

Sat 9am-5pm.

The following week:

We will be back to our usual opening times of 8.30am-6pm on weekdays and 9am-5pm on Saturdays. (Expect Sunday opening to return later in January for second semester.)

Chuck signed for us at the Anthony Burgess centre on a whistle-stop tour of two cities in one night. We would drizzle this entry with as much knowing sarcasm as the rest of this blog post, but he was quite brilliant: funny, shocking and moving. Soon to be available as a Penguin Classic.